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Richard F. Andracki, Esquire is the President and owner of Andracki Law Offices, P.C., a firm which specializes in insurance defense and coverage matters in the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.
Mr. Andracki graduated from Duquesne University in 1969, and is a 1972 graduate of the Duquesne University School of Law.
After a brief internship with the United States Department of Justice in 1972, Mr. Andracki joined the District Attorney’s Office of Allegheny County as a criminal trial prosecutor, and took numerous felony and misdemeanor cases to trial during his prosecutorial career.
As Assistant District Attorney, Mr. Andracki prosecuted and secured the conviction and incarceration of a former State Representative and Mayor on arson-related charges.
Mr. Andracki has been a frequent lecturer and instructor at various state and local fire schools, the Allegheny County Fire Marshal’s office, the Pennsylvania Association of Arson Investigators, the Pittsburgh Claims Association, and the Pittsburgh Fire Loss Conference.
In 1975, Mr. Andracki entered private practice, and spent the next 23 years of his career specializing in property and fire insurance defense, insurance coverage, and subrogation.
Mr. Andracki specialized in arson and fraud defense, and was also lead subrogation counsel for his firm.
Mr. Andracki founded Andracki Law Offices in 1999. He presently maintains his practice at his offices in the Lawyers Building in Pittsburgh.
Since opening his own firm, Mr. Andracki has represented a major international insurer on a large boiler and machinery loss claim in central Pennsylvania, involving damages in excess of $12 Million dollars.
Mr. Andracki also represented a large Canadian steel manufacturer in a seven figure lawsuit arising out of material defects in a large industrial threader used to manufacture piping for the oil and gas industry, a suit which he litigated in Columbiana County, Ohio.
Mr. Andracki also represented a principal sub–contractor in a major construction litigation involving defects in the short term parking garage at the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport.
Most recently, Mr. Andracki obtained defense verdicts in Allegheny County on a serious burn case, and obtained summary judgment on a brain injury case involving business invitee liability for injuries on a public highway.
Mr. Andracki is admitted to practice in state and federal courts in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. He is a member of the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County and the Loss Executives Association.
For a number of years, Mr. Andracki served as Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Property Insurance Law Committee.
Mr. Andracki has been a featured speaker and presenter at numerous insurance seminars and presentations.
Mr. Andracki’s numerous papers and oral presentations include, Property Insurance Subrogation from A to Z, presented to the ABA Section of Tort and Insurance Practice, Committee on Property Insurance Law, April 19-20, 1991; Legal Update – Property, presented to the Pittsburgh Claims Association Insurance Seminar, March 19, 1998; Subrogating after the Collapse, published in The Brief, vol. 29, No. 2 Winter 2000; Valuation of Building Losses in Pennsylvania: Is it Just Bricks and Mortar?; presented to the Pennsylvania Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (PAMIC) at their Annual Claims Summit (2001); Determining the Point of Origin, presented to the Pennsylvania Association of Arson Investigators (PAAI), June 7, 2004; Exclusions and Limitations to the Coverage Provision, Property Insurance Law Committee Annual Spring CLE Meeting, Emerging Issues in Homeowners’ Insurance, Carlsbad, CA, April 27-29, 2006; The Insuring Agreement, PAMIC 2007; Subrogation in the 21st Century: It’s a Whole New Ballgame, PAMIC 2008; Jury Verdicts Around the State, PAMIC, 2011; Making the Insured Your Friend, PAMIC 2012; and “So It’s Covered? What’s It Worth?” PAMIC 2013.